Mrs. Dashwood: Reduced to the condition of visitor in my own home. It is not to be borne Elinor.Elinor Dashwood: But consider Mamma, we have nowhere to go.Mrs. Dashwood: John and Fanny will be arriving from London at any moment. Do you expect me to be here to welcome them? Vultures.

Fanny: They're all exceedingly spoilt I find. Miss Margaret spends all her time up trees and under furniture and I've barely had a civil word from Marianne.Edward Ferrars: My dear Fanny, they've just lost their father. Their lives will never be the same again.

Mrs. Dashwood: Surely you're not going to deprive us of beef as well as sugar.Elinor Dashwood: There is nothing under 10 pence a pound we must economise.Mrs. Dashwood: Do you want us to starve?Elinor Dashwood: No. Just not to eat beef.

Mrs. Dashwood: You must miss him Elinor.Elinor Dashwood: We are not engaged Mamma.Mrs. Dashwood: But he loves you dearest, of that I am sure.Elinor Dashwood: I am by no means assured of his regard and even were he to feel such a preference I think we should both be very foolish to assume that there would not be many obstacles to his marrying a woman of no rank who cannot afford to buy sugar.Mrs. Dashwood: But Elinor, your heart must tell you...Elinor Dashwood: In such a case it is perhaps better to use one's head.